The health policy journal club is an interdisciplinary, inter-professional group convened monthly by the Farley Health Policy Center to discuss timely topics in health policy. A curated selection of high-yield articles provides the basis for discussion. Past topics have included income inequality and health, professionalism in medicine, patients as consumers, and adjusting payment for measures of social risk. This page presents the reading list from the most recent journal club.

This month’s health policy journal club discussed how Medicare sets payments for physicians/the RUC and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's Strategy to Make America Healthy Again.

1. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Improving Primary Care Valuation Processes to Inform the Physician Fee Schedule.
   
2. Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule Section E.2.B. (Valuation of Specific Codes, Methodology for Establishing Work RVUs, Proposed Efficiency Adjustment Parts (1) Background and (2) Proposed Methodology for the Efficiency Adjustment). 
3. An Attack on the Medical Establishment Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation. July 21, 2025. New York Times.
   
4. Sutton A. CMS Innovation Center Strategy to Make America Healthy Again. May 2025.